On the Aerosol Source Livestock Raising
Abstract
Agriculture is a prime stakeholder in the atmospheric and climate changes as on one hand side it will be strongly affected by a changing climate and yet is today by air pollution while on the other hand, through her emissions agriculture is also driving these changes. Particulate matter is important for air pollution / human health. Very little is known about the mass flux and composition of the particulate matter emitted from livestock farming. We report on the design and results of a pilot study investigating the aerosol source livestock farming undertaken at the experimental farm Talgut Lindenhof of the University of Hohenheim, in a hilly region in Southern Germany. Particulate matter was sampled for off-line chemical analyses and physically characterized in-situ close to the animal housings as well as through simultaneous measurements upwind and downwind of the farm. Off-line analyses comprised particulate matter mass, inorganic ion content, carbon fractions, total element content, single particle analyses, besides other. Estimates on the emission term are made.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002AGUFM.A52B0113S
- Keywords:
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- 0305 Aerosols and particles (0345;
- 4801);
- 0345 Pollution: urban and regional (0305);
- 0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry;
- 9335 Europe